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CDC Emergency Preparedness & Response Site
With guide to agents, diseases, and other threats, lab information, emergency preparedness for business, preparation and planning, and surveillance.

AusCERT - Australia's National Computer Emergency Response Team
Australian Computer Emergency Response Team. Advisories and tools.

CERT Coordination Center
Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team.

Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA)
An agency of CARICOM. It is the Caribbean's premier disaster management agency.

Emergency.com - Crisis, Conflict, and Emergency Service news ...
Crisis, Conflict, and Emergency Service News, Analysis, and Reference Information.

Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association
Disaster preparedness and emergency response reference material, job opportunities, and related information.

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety
Emergency Response Guidebook · International Standards · HMEP Grants · Other Transportation Links · Ntsb Recommendations · Available Documents and Files ...




emergency response News

GLOBAL MARKETS WEEKAHEAD-Europe bank rescue plan brings hope - Forbes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chaotic financial markets may react positively this week to a long-sought coordinated response by world leaders to a financial tsunami threatening to wipe out the global banking sector. The global financial system was on the ...

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Nations in Europe's single-currency zone to guarantee refinancing of ... - Newsday

PARIS (AP) _ Nations in Europe's single-currency zone agreed Sunday to temporarily guarantee bank refinancing and pledged to prevent banks failing as part of a raft of emergency measures designed to get credit flowing again. It was Europe's most ...

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BSP sees no emergency rate meet - ABS-CBN

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is unlikely to hold an emergency policy meeting and follow the lead of big economies that joined a coordinated worldwide wave of rate cuts last week aimed to quell market panic, a senior central bank official said ...

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Pease drill unites first responders - Eagle-Tribune

PORTSMOUTH (AP) — About two dozen emergency response agencies brushed up on their skills over the weekend during a mock disaster at the Pease International Tradeport. Participants practiced how they would respond if wild turkeys were sucked into ...

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Euro nations agree to guarantee bank refinancing - Globe and Mail

PARIS — France's President Nicolas Sarkozy says countries that use the euro will temporarily guarantee bank refinancing to ease the credit crunch. Mr. Sarkozy says the measure taken by the leaders of the 15 nations that use the currency is “not a ...

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India's Health-Care System 'Saturated' - Washington Post

NEW DELHI -- In the frantic moments after five bombs tore through markets across the city, Rama ran to the road, cradling his 17-year-old daughter, Puja, in his arms. Blood rushed from her head. Her pulse was slow. She wasn't speaking. His wife, who ...

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